Appeal to Lochaber shoppers to help tackle food insecurity
Sales of fruit and veg by Tesco in Lochaber last summer saw more than 4,500 of mealsworth of food donated to two frontline charities working with children and families.
The donation was part of the supermarket retailer’s Buy One to Help a Child campaign.
And Tesco has now announced that customers buying fruit or vegetables in stores in Lochaber or online from this week will again be helping to support thousands of children living in food insecurity.
From Monday this week until Sunday April 3, Tesco will give a donation when customers top up their trolleys with healthy fruit and vegetables in store or online at Tesco.com during the supermarket’s Buy One to Help a Child event.
The cash donated by Tesco will enable its food redistribution charity partner, FareShare, to help thousands of children’s charities across the UK which rely on regular donations to help families and young people in communities get the food and help they need.
Last summer, the Tesco Buy One to Help a Child event saw FareShare receive the equivalent of more than three million meals’ worth of food, which has been redistributed to frontline charities and community groups working with children - handing out food parcels to families, sending snacks to holiday clubs and breakfast clubs and giving ingredients to community kitchens.
In Lochaber, that translated into 4,582 meals-worth of food.
Graeme Robbie, development manager at FareShare Grampian, Highlands & Islands, said: ‘The Tesco Buy One to Help a Child campaign makes such a difference to us at FareShare because it helps us support children and families during the school holidays in Lochaber.’